Tiger Barb Eggs
Tiger barb breeding is actually a pretty simple process in captivity.
Tiger barb eggs. These fish do not exhibit parental instincts at all and will readily eat their eggs. As i mentioned in preparation of breeding quality eggs and fry can be obtained after a few days of conditioning your tiger barbs. This is why it is often instructed to keep a separate breeding tank that can be used as the other base for the fry.
To start it s a good idea to set up a separate breeding tank. Ensure that they get the right food such as brine shrimp before introducing them to finely crushed flake. The eggs will take one and a half days to hatch.
The female tiger barb will lay at least 200 eggs and the male will fertilize them immediately. Preparation for spawning of tiger barb in order to prepare calmly for spawning the future producers are planted two weeks before the start of the process and the males are separated from the females. Unfortunately whenever there s an opportunity tiger barbs are tempted to eat their own eggs.
The fry will start free swimming after 5 days. This involves separating them in different tanks and offering them a diet that consists of 2 3 feedings a day with brine shrimp tubifex bloodworms and other protein rich food sources. Tiger barb egg is transparent with a barely perceptible amber tone sticky much of it remains at the roots of the fern.
This is a video on how to breed tiger barbs. Unfortunately tiger barbs have a voracious appetite for their eggs and fry and removing the eggs soon after spawning is the best way to ensure that you will have tiger barb juveniles to raise. Like some other egg laying freshwater fish the tiger barb female will lay her eggs and the eggs are then fertilized by the male.
Yaaayyy im soo excited. To come down to one breeding pair you should at least have half a dozen of them in the tank and permit them to pair off.
